Worcester’s anti-panhandling signs removed

In mid-July I was told that Worcester took down its anti-panhandling signs, after more than a year of a failed anti-panhandling media campaign.

Now, photographic evidence has arrived: posts that used to have anti-panhandling signs, and no longer do:

I’ll be revising this post a bit in the coming days to give the history, as I understand it, of this campaign. I’ll probably be removing most of the anti-panhandling info from Worcester Poverty Issues.

Just after Thanksgiving, posters saying “Stop the War on the Poor” were glued to the anti-panhandling signs.

Articles:

Telegram & Gazette, July 31, 2005: Balance prosperity with compassion: Commentary by Robert Z. Nemeth. “I had an opportunity to read the cityâ€™s action plan to wipe out panhandling, which seems like a blueprint to fight the invasion of the body-snatchers.”